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Today, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein — along with a dozen other industry leaders, like Vint Cerf, Larry Lessig, and NYC’s Brad Burnham — announced the launch of InternetforEveryone.org, a call for universal access to high speed, broadband Internet for the US.
The announcement, made at the Personal Democracy Forum, provided four principals for their cause: access, [...]

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MobLogic host, Lidsay Campbell, was arrested last week during the protests for the brutal killing of Sean Bell.
In her follow-up episode from the event, Lindsay bravely describes her decision to get arrested. You can watch the episode below — it’s impressively thoughtful and thought-provoking.
What I want to point out, however, is this frame from the episode [...]

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(via my dad)

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For my readers in the New York tech scene (and many outside of it), Sanford Dickert’s name is probably quite familiar — he’s one of the more dedicated community members and has made his mark in everything from business, politics, coworking and academia. He’s a gracious mentor to many.
The reason I’m writing about Sanford is [...]

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I give a lot of credit to my dad for encouraging my intellectual pursuits. He’s a thinker (sometimes an over-thinker, I tease), and I like to think he passed that on to me. (In the introduction to my senior thesis, I explained how his Ph.D. dissertation turned me on to sociological inquiry.)
Anyway, here’s an excerpt [...]

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Thanks for the civility. Thanks for the authenticity. Thanks for working to end American Poverty and for making Clinton and Obama promise to follow your lead. Thanks for your fight for One America, even though you see Two.
Thanks for your campaign. I’ll miss you.

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Google is too powerful and Wikipedia should save itself (and the world) by introducing fully open API.
Introduction
For much of the past month, the tech press has been consumed by two things: the introduction of the Google Knol and the release of Wikia Search (see Allen Stern’s excellent coverage here). If there’s one thing that’s clear [...]

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I wasn’t sure how best to pun this headline, so you got what you got.
Anyway, if you’re a blogger and interested in your first amendment rights, check out what happened to Laughing Squid over the past week.
Basically, Scott Beale reported on an Improv Everywhere “Mission” which had to do with parodying Best Buy’s (in)famous blue [...]

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Take 40 minutes and watch (or listen to, in the background) this interview of John Doerr — the VC extraordinaire, futurist, and self-proclaimed geek.
The interview, hosted by John Battelle, ranges from Google, to green tech, to the “immersive web,” and the politics around the wireless spectrum auction.
Enjoy:

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This NBC story is about one of my favorite people in the world: the smart, savvy, and sensible billionaire, Warren Buffet.
Here, Tom Brokaw goes out to Omaha to hear about “the Oracle’s” latest crusade: trying to get congress to raise his tax rate relative to his (poorer) employees’ tax rates (he couldn’t find one person [...]

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